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[quote=Anonymous][quote=enh124]The Board allowed all the drama to occur without any action. They seem to have botched their fiduciary duty.  All have to go! We were oblivious to everything until our child's performance suffered. So we started to ask questions and had meetings (entire class of parents) and the previous principal was clueless. My sense is she came from a private school and was fairly overwhelmed by all the accountability that is required by public schools. You have to respond to parents with "real" answers and plans. She couldn't do that. There is no plan to be successful.  I'd be looking at other options. This will not be fixed for a while. Don't be optimistic, be realistic![/quote]

Sorry but that makes no sense. Have you ever seen a DC private primary school? Private schools have entitled parents who pay top dollar for "accountability". There's no way you can last at a DC private primary school without dealing with entitled, helicopter parents and having accountability. So I have no idea what you're talking about

The only things "overwhelming" at SSMA are the compliance issues. And SSMA has someone who is supposed to be taking are of that. After all, the ED has hired layers of admin folks.[/quote]

Yeah, the comment about no accountability at a private school doesn't make any sense. But maybe the PP meant something else. For example, in terms of SSMA's admin and staff and accountability, the sense I got in the last year is that suddenly all decisions were made by the ED - meaning you could ask anyone anything and not get a straight answer. It seemed to me like they were deathly afraid to make a mistake in responding for fear of the wrath of the ED. That's a sign of a culture of fear. I don't know what happened this year. But things changed a lot from the previous year.

My view: the ED is a toxic micro-manager. Make that one change and suddenly everyone has "accountability".[/quote]

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